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If you are planning an interesting Multi Touch project (for instance with Microsoft Surface, Windows 7…) then check out this call for projects from the Microsoft Innovation Center ( http://www.mic-belgique.be/default.aspx ) in Mons. Contact me if you want more info and I will put you in contact with...

Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch Beta (NEW) This beta package includes the advanced Microsoft Surface controls, templates, and samples to easily create applications that are optimized for multi-touch interaction and that run on Windows Touch PCs. With the .NET Framework 4.0, Windows Presentation...

Sharing some bits that I found interesting during the last week while reading about cloud computing. Windows Azure Platform A nice collection of tools and learning resources listed by Wintellect: http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/pmehner/archive/2010/04/20/learning-windows-azure-platform-resources.aspx...

A couple of weeks ago we had a Windows Identity Foundation workshop in Belgium delivered by Vittorio Bertocci . Frank Cornelis from FedICT was very quick to apply this knowledge and make it so you can now easily use the Belgian electronic ID cards with your ASP.NET applications. Here’s how: http://groups...

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032449971&Culture=en-GB   Event Overview The “Microsoft Azure Self-paced Learning Course” is a free, interactive, self-paced, technical training course covering the Microsoft Azure platform – Windows Azure, SQL Azure and the Azure...

We have heard a lot on Windows Phone 7 since February. Today, there’s another interesting announcement made about Microsoft mobile solution for industries. Up until now these two operating systems resided in different business groups at Microsoft. The Windows Embedded Business (WEB) has overseen Windows...

Sharing some bits that I found interesting during the last week while reading about cloud computing.   Windows Azure Platform .NET 4 is coming to Windows Azure within 90 days of the RTM of .NET 4 . In fact, you can read here that .NET 4.0 is already in the current Windows Azure OS but that it cannot...

Sharing some bits that I found interesting during the last week while reading about cloud computing. Windows Azure Platform I found this nice overview of sessions to follow here ( http://blogs.msdn.com/billzack/archive/2010/03/13/windows-azure-platform-training-roadmap.aspx ). I’m copying the links from...

I’m repeating this post for some our Belgian ISV’s in the Healthcare vertical. Hear about the requirements and the architecture of this app in the video. Or check out the case study you can read. All is referenced in this blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/innov8showcase/archive/2010/03/14/arcast-tv-ihi...

Sharing some bits that I found interesting during the last week while reading about cloud computing.   Windows Azure Platform I really enjoyed reading the Socratic Dialectic in the RDBMS vs NoSQL post on ‘the codeface’ blog. SUPER stuff!!! http://blog.markrendle.net/2010/03/do-you-need-relational...

http://www.developforwindows.com/ Some cool sample applications can be found on this site that will most certainly help a lot with getting started. Also tookits are downloadable from this page! Do you want to access, manage and interact with your Facebook account quickly and directly from your desktop...

Sharing some bits that I found interesting during the last week while reading about cloud computing.   Windows Azure Platform This week was a pretty exciting week for those following the ventures of Microsoft into cloud computing. If you didn’t see the talk online, I recommend watching it on demand...

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Sharing some bits that I found interesting during the last week while reading about cloud computing.   Windows Azure platform http://www.cerebrata.com/Products/CloudStorageStudio/Default.aspx Tools are being developed on the Windows Azure Platform. This tool, Cloud Storage Studio, allows you to...

Partners, check out this Azure Partner Hub: http://azurehub.com/

Wow, it really does look like 7 might be Microsoft’s lucky number. Today’s announcement of Windows Phone 7 series is certainly greeted with a lot of positive sentiment. You can go hear to watch the press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsphone/ Also check out this site for...

http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/36db4da6-8777-431e-aefb-316ccbb63e4e

Accessing a drive on Windows Azure using standard NTFS API’s? It is possible: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2010/02/02/beta-release-of-windows-azure-drive.aspx Interesting is that it is actually a Windows Azure Page Blob in which a virtual hard drive formatted with NTFS is stored. The blog...

  This might be interesting for you! Dear Partner, Cloud computing both Azure and BPOS are part of another major shift in the still young IT industry.  The objective of this session is to review the business value and the partner opportunity of Windows Azure™ Platform. The Windows Azure™ Platform...

I’m still hearing quite a few people say they will join us but at the same time they still need to register. Benefit from the discount up to 120 euro if you register before the 31st of January. I hope that the speaker line up ( http://www.microsoft.com/belux/techdays/2010/speakers.aspx ) and the session...

Here’s a great way to quickly get ready to try or demo Sharepoint and Office 2010. Download the VPC: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0c51819b-3d40-435c-a103-a5481fe0a0d2&displaylang=en Then install the training kits: http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer...

Just 13 pages so don’t expect more than a brief introduction into the topic. You can read it online here: https://www.microsoft.com/business/mycenter/library/cloud-computing.aspx If you want to download it, just press the print button and you can save it to a pdf file.   Enjoy. Hans

I love this application from the UK team. Very quickly you learn about some of the new features that will bust some of the myths around Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/ee679805.aspx

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032438251&Culture=en-US Seats are limited so don’t hesitate!